Monster Hunter Generations September DLC Includes Star Fox and Strider Gear

I'm more excited for the Uniqlo Astalos armor.
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Jet Set Radio, much?

They release too many monster hunter games. i played the demo for this one and it didnt give me any reason to upgrade from 4

I still have gotten around to purchasing this game and that's surprising consider I absolutely love the franchise and bought both of the previous games on launch day. I am just not too into the 3DS right now but when I am this game will be near the top of the list. That or I may just play some more Monster Hunter 4 instead!

@Yoshis95
Sure it does!

If you've already beaten MH4U then there's no reason to keep replaying the same end-game quests over and over. That's when you buy the new game and have fun all over again. It's the journey that's 90% of the fun in MH.

I played MH3U for 600 hours, and then stopped playing. Then MH4U released and I played for 400 hours, and then stopped playing. And now MH Generations is out, so the fun begins anew.

Unless you just bought MH4U or something. But if you're still playing that game a year and a half after it's launch then it might be time to move onto a new game, Hunt new monsters in new quests and get new armor, new weapons, and just experience the excitement of the journey all over again. A new journey you haven't been on before.

I still need to buy this game, but I'm holding my off until the holiday season. That and Pokemon will keep me occupied for a good while. Glad to see they are still updating the game.

Gotta get all those armor sets!

I still have to play this even though I bought it weeks ago, Hyrule Warriors Legends keeps stealing my gaming time.

Nothing special from these dlc quests. More like an accessory for fans of those games there are better equipment than what this dlc offers. Hope next one will be better and maybe they will add hyper raths. Also hoping for fatalis but doubt it will happen.

I'm still low rank, so the only quests I can currently do are the arena ones and the appropriately named Crimson Strongmen quest.

@Tsurii The Uniqlo set gives Earplugs, Evade Extender, and Halve Stun. I've got my +10 mounting master talisman and used the five slots to gem in high grade earplugs. Alternatively, using a two-slot weapon (Polaris Axe or Hyper Seregios one) I'm able to get Evasion +2 for the "discount Silverwind" vibe (still ends up with much better defense at max; 450 < 580).
It's not the best, but as you said you can definitely do some stuff with it.

In 3 Ultimate I left all of the DLC quests to do at the end however most weapons/armor capped at High Rank rarity levels in raw damage/defence so there was no incentive for me to embark on any of them. Now, the strategy with DLC quests is to do them as soon as you're able to b/c the gear they provide will only be useful in the moment as most did not upgrade as far as endgame rarity levels.

The Ace Attorney Guild Card background is nice. The Great Ace Attorney in English would be lovelier.

@JaxonH @Yoshis95 I put in hundreds of hours into Mh3 and 4 and I was excited for generations, but after around 50 hours I don't feel much desire to keep playing.

The problem with Generations is that there is no journey. The solo campaign is horribly tedious with absolutely zero story and way too many easy yet time consuming quests. I'd honestly rather go back to 4U than keep playing Generations. Progress in generations is not at all well paced. How many hours do I have to put in before I find anything remotely challenging? Even multi player hasn't grabbed my attention. Maybe after a few months I'll come back to generations and enjoy it, but so far I found 4U a far more entertaining experience.

@tedko
I was playing MH back before MH4U when they never really had "story" (only game to do that has been MH4U). Just a simple "village is threatened, now go hunt monsters". Which is totally fine cause the drive for better armor and weapons and the thrill of the actual hunt has always been the heart and soul of MH.

And it's for that reason that I find Generations to be excellent- not to mention it has way more maps than any other MH game since it's got maps from the entire series history, an incredible number of monsters (a lot of the missing monsters from MH3U and Freedom Unite are back) and the hunter arts really spice things up, and free up skills/slots normally utilized for evasion category.

What tops it off, to me, is how much less grindy it is than any other MH to date. Almost all key quests are real hunts/capture quests, can now gather multiple resources by holding button, and armor/weapons that traditionally would require 1 if not 2 super rare mats with a 2% drop rate, now can almost all be made without gemstones or palliums. That's huge.

@Tsurii
I couldn't disagree more. Even MH4U story was a joke compared to games with real stories. What was in older games can't even remotely be considered an entertaining aspect of the game. I would be shocked, no, amazed if a single person ever said "I really enjoyed the story in Monster Hunter". That's not story. That's basic plotline which even Mario games have. Bad guy stole princess, go save her. Same thing,

As for the single player, I'll admit MH4U was better, but not because it didn't have tedious quests. Cause it did. In fact, Generations actually has the leaat amount of required tedious quests. Oh it's got a lot for sure, but hardly any of them are keys. Whereas a crapload of them were keys in past games.

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Just ironic how a story in a game like say, Fire Emblem Fates, can bore people to death. And it's got cut scenes and dialogue and plot twists and, it's a real actual story. Yet the minuscule plotline of MH games of years past is now "vital to the experience"... I just don't understand how something so basic can be claimed to be so valuable, while actual stories 10x more involved are being labeled as dull and not interesting enough to keep them playing.

Oh that DLC looks lovely. And I am still here playing MH4U xD

Although I agree that MH has always had a bare bones story, with most of the story being "Hunter this X monster is attacking our village, please save us", 4U was a step in the right direction with the story being stronger than ever. Sure it wasn't much compared to what a story focused game has, but even the bare bones story gives some incentive to continue in the start, before the endgame where you just whatever you want xD So the more tedious nature of Gen Single player doesn't sound as well.

Ah well. Guys please don't stop hunting before I get Generations >.< Which is probably in a few months.... It'd be funny if another game is announced right when I get Generations.

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@CrazedCavalier
Okay that armour is awesome. If it has decent skills I'd just wear it for the whole time before endgame set grinding!

Great another reason to get Gen as soon as possible.

@LasermasterA Hey, don't worry! As soon as you do get the game, we can start a new game+ (which is, btw, a thing in Generations, likely for the sole purpose of players wanting to see both male and female versions of armour. You won't keep your endgame stuff, but enough to ease the early grind) to hunt on your level.

Also, all this complaining about story, when a spin-off is coming that literally has it in the title... sheesh.

@meleebrawler Is there a Monster Hunter community going on here? I was thinking of starting Generations today

I'm kindof a Monster Hunter noob. The only other game in the series I played was 4U, and I only played about 40 hours (I progressed very slowly too, hunting the big monsters multiple times with different weapons, and I think I only ever got up to the spider boss in the second village). I really liked it, but I do like the idea of starting fresh with a new game.

I dunno why people are going on about the story in 4U, it was basically throwaway. I hope the writing is as good in Generations as it was in 4U, though. I laughed out loud quite a few times.

It's not that the story was anything great or memorable in 4U, it's more about the pacing of progress, (and the story did help a bit in giving a sense of progression in the solo campaign). In Generations I've now done all 5 star quests available and no urgent quest appeared. I went back and did all 4 star quests that I had skipped and still no urgent quest. So I guess I've gotta go back and do some boring gathering/kill 10-20 small monsters/egg delivery quests in 2 and 3 stars, and I just can't be bothered at this point.

I guess I could find out online somewhere which are the required quests, but I'd rather be able to just play, without needing to consult a guide to tell me how to progress.

@JaxonH ah i suppose since i havnt played MH4U much that could be the case. Havnt given it the proper time for me to sink into it yet

@JaxonH I was responding to your comment that "it's about the journey". For me the pacing of progress in Generations has killed any sense of journey, and I don't want to have to look up which are key quests. That's just poor game design in my opinion.

I agree Generations does a lot of things well, and improves in many ways on past MH games, but I just can't understand why the single player campaign is so horribly designed. It's just destroyed any sense of enthusiasm for me.

Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

@meleebrawler
Oh you're here as well xD

Well not exactly complaining but yea, some basic story has always been there. I don't really mind much, but for some that factor is needed to keep em interested. With 700 hours in each 3U and 4U (plus 100 in Freedom, don't remember unite) I don't think I am a person who needs story in his MonHun xD

The NG+ mode sounds interesting. Well I always wanted to see both armours, but I don't know if I'll bother to use this mode.

Monster Hunter Stories has to have a good story or else...

So I'm about 2 hours in...

For the record, there isn't "no" story. You are a hunter hired by a monster-researching academy to gather data in the field. So basically the story is on par with Pokemon, and that's fine.

They've really loosened up on how to train your Palico; it's now way easier and faster to swap their skills and make them armor. Still kinda sad there isn't a "main" Palico you could talk to like in 4U, though.

The localization is just as incredible as 4U. One of the tutorials is literally a parody of the Pokemon theme song, and another character talks only in meter-perfect rhyme while tutorializing you (that must have been a b**** for the writing team). One of my favorite characters so far talks half in Japanese, half in English, and I managed to learn a few new words

@TeslaChippie If you're talking about Neko (means "Cat"), he's been around since 3 Ultimate, and has a cameo in 4 Ultimate on Cheeko Sands, along with his mentor who you'll eventually encounter in Kokoto, the Argosy Captain, who was introduced in Tri.

@meleebrawler Interesting! 4U was my first MH game and I didn't make it very far ^-^;

@JaxonH

I played monster hunter generation I think is better than 4 ultimate but 3 ultimate better than 4 ultimate and generation. What you think ?

@kaoru
It's like choosing your favorite child (if I had kids).

I think I enjoyed MH3U most because it was on Wii U in HD with voice chat. And it was loaded with content. Just jam packed to the brim. And I kinda liked the occasional underwater skirmish.

But I think MH4U was better in so many ways, it's only shortcoming being no console version. Still, that game was excellent:

Generations by far improves on the formula the most, improvements which now that I've experienced I don't think I'd want to ever go without again. As some have mentioned it's just straight up quests but, it's not like the narrative ever mattered anyways. The felyne mode is awesome, the managing felynes has been perfected, so many other practical improvements...

I love them all, and each game has its own appeal- MH3U for underwater and HD and voice chat, MH4U for the excellent campaign which is good to draw in new players (they seem to like the glamour and glitz at first), and Generations which has so many improvements that make the game less tedious and play as felynes.